It’s fifteen years ago (bear with me, I’ve been in this industry since the late 90s, most of my good stories start this way), and you’ve got two senior developers at a SaaS company. One of them writes 40% more lines of code than the other. Is that developer better? More impactful for the business? Should the other one be polishing their CV? Of course not. You’d want to know what actually shipped . What it did for customers, for revenue, for reliability. Lines of code, PR counts… we spent a couple of decades learning these are stereotypically bad ways to measure a developer, to the point where suggesting them today is laughable. Sooooo… Here’s what the industry put on the billboard this year: Google: 75% of new code is AI-generated . Anthropic: ~80% of merged production code is written by Claude , and engineers ship “8x more code per quarter”. OpenAI: also ~80% , apparently. Cursor: “100M+ lines of enterprise code written per day” . Every single one is a volume claim.…